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Pseudoneoponera

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Pseudoneoponera
Pseudoneoponera verecundae male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Ponerini
Genus: Pseudoneoponera
Donisthorpe, 1943
Type species
Pseudoneoponera verecundae[1]
Donisthorpe, 1943
Diversity[2]
18 species
Synonyms

Trachymesopus Emery, 1911

Pseudoneoponera is a ponerine genus of ants found from India to Australia, they are mostly queenless gamergate species, most of the species within the genus thrives on only gamergates.[2]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Bolton, B. (2015). "Pseudoneoponera". AntCat. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  2. ^ a b Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. (2014). "The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior". Zootaxa. 3817 (1): 1–242. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1. PMID 24943802.